JS Categories List Widget
A simple Gutenberg block and JS widget (can be called from posts) for displaying categories in a list with some effects.
4.8(16 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated TodayAs of April 2026, JS Categories List Widget is a WordPress block plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 74K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.1+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 56% this week. Top alternative: Spectra Gutenberg Blocks – Website….
4.8/516 reviews
1.0K+active installs
74K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible list of categories in your sidebar or posts by using vanilla Javascript.
Features
- Support for Gutenberg blocks. Add it to any FSE theme or Gutenberg compatible theme.
- Display a collapsed list of your archives to reduce space.
- Uses vanilla JS to add effects and to be compatible with all browsers.
- Select the symbol for expanding/collapsing categories
- Select categories to exclude, so it shows only the categories you want.
- Autoexpand selected category (including it parent or child).
- Support for multiple instances.
- Simple layout configuration
- Shortcode support [JsCategoriesList]
- Translated to Spanish, Italian Russian, Slovak, Czech.
- Compatible with most JS cache and minify plugins.
- And more to come…
Configuration
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works well with 4.9.8
by Chris Dennis·7 years ago
Haven’t seen any problems running this with WordPress 4.9.8, even though it’s marked as untested for a long time. It must have been well written.
I was look for this widget for a long long period of time!! It works great!
by firroaga·9 years ago
I was look for this widget for a long long period of time!! It works great!
Really great plugin
by albuquezi·10 years ago·1 reply
I looked everywhere for a plugin that would do this and I was only satisfied when I got this one. It worked perfectly out of the box and has many configuration options. Really great work!
Nice and Simple
by pfta·10 years ago·1 reply
Works really well, especially to create a simple category page listing.
Recommended.
Good. Missing a feature.
by mar16·10 years ago·2 replies
I like this plugin very much.
Easy to use and simple.
It’ll be 5 star if the categories are collapsible to show the posts like in “jQuery Archive List Widget”.
Download Trends
Today: 82Yesterday: 18This week: 176Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.1+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
41.5%
v4.0
39.5%
v4.1
19.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
4.1.1
- Added a post type selector in the block editor to switch between posts and custom post types registered with the default Categories taxonomy.
- Added REST support to load category options and frontend category trees by selected post type.
- Updated category picker behavior to refresh category options when changing the selected post type.
- Added a new block setting to open category links in a new page (
target="_blank"). - Added backward-compatible post type fallback to
postwhen older block instances do not havepost_typesaved.
Contributors
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